This week's happenings include a product's 25th birthday, two major companies combining, and another company heading for financial troubles. However, the biggest news is that Samsung has developed the world's fastest memory, a GDDR5 chip that can transfer data at six gigabits per second. "Samsung expects that GDDR5 memory chips will become the de facto standard in the top performing segment of the market by capturing more than 50% of the high-end PC graphics market by 2010."